Databricks says it solved the decades-old data pipeline problem that’s been slowing AI agents
For decades, data professionals have struggled with the challenge of managing both operational and analytical databases in a unified approach that doesn’t introduce latency and performance degradation. Agents made the problem structural. A system that reasons continuously and acts on live data cannot tolerate a pipeline between itself and the information it needs to act […]
Stanford’s DeLM cuts multi-agent task costs 50% — without a central orchestrator
One of the assumptions behind today’s AI frameworks is that agents require a “boss” at the center; this orchestrator runs the show, routes requests, and makes sure the whole system doesn’t descend into chaos. That assumption may be wrong, and the cost of carrying it could be measured in inference dollars and coordination latency. A […]
Satya Nadella warns that AI could hollow out entire industries, echoing the damage done by globalization
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella published a sweeping essay on Sunday laying out what he describes as the defining economic challenge of the AI era: the risk that a handful of frontier models will absorb the expertise of entire industries and commoditize it, leaving businesses stripped of their competitive moats. “The last thing any of us […]
When deep research isn’t enough for your business: Sakana AI launches ‘ultra deep research’ agent for 100+ page reports in 8 hours
Tokyo-based AI startup Sakana AI has officially launched its first commercial product, Sakana Marlin. Billed as a “Virtual CSO” (Chief Strategy Officer), Marlin is an autonomous, B2B research agent that deliberately abandons the instantaneous text generation of modern chatbots in favor of deep, long-horizon reasoning. What sets Marlin apart from the current ecosystem of AI […]
85% of IT teams claim every AI agent is under control. Only 42% actually know who owns them.
Organizational leaders are nearly twice as likely to hide their AI use compared to all other employees, at 42% versus 23%, according to new Ivanti research surveying 3,900 employees across six countries. Among leaders who conceal that usage, 52% say they do it for a “secret advantage.” The same research found 85% of IT professionals […]
Vibe coding can build your pipeline. It can’t explain it six months later
AI coding agents are rapidly accelerating data engineering by generating transformations, pipelines, orchestration workflows, validation tests, and infrastructure configurations from prompts. However, enterprise data platforms have long operated across fragmented systems owned by different teams and built on different technologies. As these systems evolve independently, organizations increasingly struggle with inconsistent business logic, duplicated implementations, difficult […]
Attackers scale deception with AI. Defenders need truth at machine speed.
Presented by Splunk AI has changed the economics of cyber deception. An attacker can now generate thousands of convincing phishing lures, fake identities, and tailored pretexts before a defender finishes a single change-control cycle. That is the new security challenge: deception got faster and cheaper, while verification did not. Much of the discussion around AI […]
MCP solved tool calling. A2A solved coordination. What solves transport?
The history of distributed computing is one of protocol proliferation followed by consolidation. Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA), Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM), Java remote method invocation (RMI), and early simple object access protocol (SOAP) competed for the enterprise integration market in the late 1990s before representational state transfer (REST) quietly won by being […]
Anthropic blocks all public access to Claude Fable 5, Mythos 5 following US government order — what enterprises should do
The US government last night issued an unprecedented export control directive ordering Anthropic to immediately suspend all access to its top-tier Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 models for foreign nationals, citing unspecified national security authorities. In response, Anthropic has blocked all public access to both models, globally — meaning no users around the […]
Kimi K2.7-Code cuts thinking tokens 30% — but practitioners say the benchmarks don’t check out
Moonshot AI released Kimi K2.7-Code this week, an open-source update to its K2 coding model family, claiming leaner reasoning and double-digit performance gains. K2.7-Code is built on the same trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts architecture as its predecessor K2.6, and drops in via an OpenAI-compatible API — which matters for teams already running K2.6 in production gateways. When […]